Details behind 2025’s global cloud growth, where adoption is strong or migration gaps persist in 2026, and how organizations worldwide empower their teams with intuitive, cloud-powered printing and scanning.
Reasons why cloud-powered print infrastructure has become the first choice for many IT teams in 2026, including cost reduction, security, and simplified print management.
Data-backed usage patterns across features and functionalities that help IT leaders benchmark against thousands of environments and identify where their own usage deviates from market norms.
Practical recommendations for partners on which print products to prioritize based on current customer needs and the changing office print landscape.
Highlights from the 2026 Edition
The majority of new projects are now cloud-first: While certain regions already reached a high cloud share ahead of the global tipping point, as of 2025, 64.8% of new deployments worldwide are in the cloud.
IT teams actively eliminate print management: 76% of IT teams have already moved, or plan to move, their print workflows to the cloud in the next three years.
Secure print rules eliminate massive waste: 13% of submitted print jobs are never released, preventing 130M+ pages from being printed each year.
IT managers continue to dismantle on‑prem infrastructure: 81% of IT teams report a reduced server footprint, with modern print stacks centered on cloud‑native tools and secure cloud identity.
